Effects of key enabling technologies for seru production on sustainable performance

Demand uncertainty, economic globalization, and environmental deterioration force factories to innovate their manufacturing systems for achieving sustainable performance. Seru production, which is the latest manufacturing mode developed in Japan, attracts broad attention from both academia and practitioners. The overwhelming majority of existing works on seru production focus on economic performance unilaterally, while neglecting the environmental and social performance. This paper investigates the effects of key enabling technologies for seru production on sustainable performance. Firstly, four key enabling technologies for seru production are identified through systematic review, and an evaluation indicator system of sustainable performance in the context of seru production is developed. Then, the hypotheses about the effects of the identified key enabling technologies for seru production on sustainable performance are proposed on the basis of previous research achievements, theoretical analysis, and practical observations. Finally, the hypotheses are tested through structural equation modeling. Except for two hypotheses which are not supported and one which is indirectly supported, all other hypotheses are verified. The research results show that the four key enabling technologies for seru production have different effects on the three dimensions of sustainable performance. The achievements of this work are of significance to improve the comprehensive understanding of seru production, as well as to develop practical methods to implement sustainable operations.     

Open innovation and quality management: the moderating role of interorganisational IT infrastructure and complementary learning styles

This study seeks to explain the influence of quality management on the relationship between open innovation and performance. We propose that, to contribute to open innovation performance, an organisation’s commitment to quality improvement must rely on the combination of its own resources and capabilities and its open innovation partners’ resources and capabilities. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of an interorganisational IT infrastructure and the complementarity of learning styles among an organisation committed to quality improvement and its supply network. Using data from 270 managers of European firms, our results show that the negative effects of quality management on open innovation performance can be overcome by complementing the organisation’s learning style with that of its open innovation partner, particularly, its supply network, and, most importantly, obtaining information technologies compatible with those of its supply network members.     

Late Adapters? How Social Workers Acquire Knowledge and Skills About Technology Tools

Little is understood about the scope of information and communication technology (ICT) use in practice for agency-based social work professionals, and still less is known about how such practitioners acquire and avail themselves of opportunities to learn about ICT tools. This study asked a sample of social work field supervisors (n?=?371) to describe their personal and professional ICT use, to rank the technological sophistication of their agency, to describe the barriers and facilitators to ICT use in their organizations and to operationalize environmental opportunities for acquiring new skills and knowledge. The authors examine factors that may influence technology use: asking if organizational culture is related to uptake in the professional context, and if self-reported individual resistance to innovation and change can explain voluntary adoption of ICT tools. The results offer a portrait of how agency-based social workers are using technology in personal and professional life, describe how these supervisors learn about developing technologies for practice, and highlight the gaps in technology infrastructures among agencies, pointing to directions for further exploration.     

创新人才培养视角下的高校教学管理制度研究

本文通过对高校教学管理创新与创新人才培养的关系及存在问题的分析,对高校教学管理创新的意义进行了深入的论述,并在此基础上,提出了具体的高校教学管理制度改革与创新的对策和措施。     

An approximate dual-self model and paradoxes of choice under risk

We derive a simplified version of the model of Fudenberg and Levine, 2006, Fudenberg and Levine, 2011 and show how this approximate model is useful in explaining choice under risk. We show that in the simple case of three outcomes, the model can generate indifference curves that “fan out” in the Marschak–Machina triangle, and thus can explain the well-known Allais and common ratio paradoxes that models such as prospect theory and regret theory are designed to capture. At the same time, our model is consistent with modern macroeconomic theory and evidence and generates predictions across a much wider set of domains than these models.     

固守·承继·创新——汤池试验留给我们的启示

伴随着时代的不断发展,中国正大踏步地迈进世界的大舞台。面对多元文化的冲击,中国传统文化的继承与弘扬正面临着诸多的考验,人们为此做出过许多的探索与努力。汤池的庐江中华文化教育中心也正是其中之一。汤池的试验,对于承继传统文化提供的启示是：坚定弘扬传统文化的信念,注重传统文化对人由外而内的塑造以及实现传统与现代的对接。     

基于“三性”整合的马克思主义理论教育教学的创新

马克思主义理论教育教学应以创新思想为指导,遵循历史整合性、现实整合性和实践整合性的＂三性＂整合路径。只有这样,马克思主义理论的教育教学效果才能得到质的提高。     

中国特色社会主义理论创新的历程及启示

改革开放以来,中国共产党人在将马克思主义基本原理与中国社会主义建设的实际相结合的过程中,对怎样建设、巩固和发展社会主义这一马克思主义发展史上百年探索的时代课题,进行了艰辛的探索,创立了中国特色社会主义理论体系,并第一次对它做了系统的回答。这一探索和回答的过程,是不断进行理论创新的过程。它启示我们,理论创新必须要做到坚持原则、面对时代、尊重实践,只有这样才能使中国特色社会主义事业焕发出蓬勃生机。     

智库建设的困境摆脱与国家软实力提升

智库是国家软实力的重要体现。改革开放以来,国家软实力的提升为智库建设的机制创新创造了有利条件。但在新时期新的历史条件下,由于体制内官方智库的非自主性、体制外智库发展的滞后性、智库设置和定位的模糊化、智库建设和发展的保障不足等仍影响着国家软实力的提升。不断加强官方智库建设,高度重视半官方智库建设,加大民间智库的扶持力度,引导大学附属型智库的积极发展,建立各类智库的互动合作机制,是我国进一步提升国家软实力的必由之路。     

西部地区旅游产业转型升级中的科技支撑——以云南省为例

科技推动旅游产业的发展,旅游转型升级需要强化科技支撑。西部地区经济相对落后,创新能力较低,旅游业科技应用与研发水平不高,旅游科技发展亟需创新思路和工作方法,应以技术引进为基础,以技术扩散为重点,以技术创新为辅助,重点加强技术引进和扩散,大力推进模仿创新,积极培育自主创新。现阶段应制定激励政策,引导科技、教育、研发机构、行业协会形成合力,发展技术市场和中介组织,培育旅游科技应用与创新示范企业,推进智慧景区、智能酒店、数字化旅游城市试点建设。